06/02/2017

Autodesk 2018: “Error 1918.Error installing ODBC driver Advance ODBC Driver, ODBC error 13: the setup routines for the Advance ODBC driver could not be loaded due to a system error code.126:"

Issue:

“Error 1918.Error installing ODBC driver Advance ODBC Driver, ODBC error 13: the setup routines for the Advance ODBC driver could not be loaded due to a system error code.126:"

I ran into this during a Building Design Suite Ultimate 2018 install although this is Building Design Suite it does appear this also effected AutoCAD and other programs in the Suite. They selected OK and the install continued and finished with most programs showing Red X's and not being installed.

Reason:

This ended up being something I have ran into in earlier versions. The Visual C++ Redistributed installs version 2015. This was already on the system and I have seen this cause issues before where the installer would simply roll back.

Solution:

1.) Uninstall the Visual C++ Redistributed 2015's (and newer versions but make sure to reinstall newer versions because Autodesk 2018 only does 2015 at this point) in Add/Remove programs.

2.) Rerun the installer and this will reinstall the Visual C++ Redistributed 2015 and should complete the installation.